Wilfrid

British  

/ ˈwɪlfrɪd /

noun

1. Saint. 634–709 _ad , English churchman; bishop of York (?663–?703). At the Synod of Whitby (664) he argued successfully that Celtic practices should be replaced by Roman ones in the English Church. Feast day: Oct 12

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Example Sentences

Starring Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell as struggling rag-and-bone men Harold and Albert Steptoe, the sitcom reached audiences of more than 28 million in it is heyday.

From BBC

For writers in the 1960s, middle-class infidelity offered a keyhole to deeper social themes—“the relation of individual to collective decadence,” the critic Wilfrid Sheed wrote of Updike’s fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Gen Z has been fueling this movement toward a lot of things,” said Melise Panetta, a marketing lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada.

From Salon

“Reptiles are massively understudied,” said Noam Miller, a comparative psychologist at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, and an author of the paper, published on Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. “There’s a bias out there that they’re these boring, not very cognitive animals, and that’s completely wrong. That’s one of the reasons why we got very interested in studying them and showing the complex cognitive things they can do.”

From New York Times

"This continued smouldering through the winter, I think, is very alarming to see", especially after Canada's record-shattering wildfire season last year, said Jennifer Baltzer, a professor of biology at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Canada Research Chair in Forests and Global Change.

From BBC